Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server
To: gnea@rochester.rr.com (Scott Prader)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:54:52 +0100 (BST)
Cc: miles@megapathdsl.net (Miles Lane), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20010418215602.A9035@rochester.rr.com> from "Scott Prader" at Apr 18, 2001 09:56:03 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> different, new, from scratch, to go in another direction.  I think Linus
> himself did this back in 1991, obviously not with X, but you get the
> idea I think.  If not, then don't bother answering cuz it'll just be a

Yeah and we spent most of those 10 years reinventing wheels in order to make
them free.  There are people doing interesting things with X rendering and
the ideas behind it. Some of them have been at it since Linus was a small
child. The TinyX server framework also lets you hack arbitarily interesting
card drivers into a nice easy framework. 

There are also folks like the directfb people who've implemented something
Rasterman ranted about ages ago - which is using the 3d hardware subsystem to
render windows as rectangular textures.

I've seen exactly _one_ X project that is justifiably seperate. Thats weirdX
and its separate because its in Java. If you like the idea of

	http://localhost/

giving you an Xdm window you'll find it worth a play

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